Friday, 28 June 2002

CHR Programming with Constraints. Programming with Constraints Paul Snively has a great set of references to programming with constraints at LtU. [Patrick Logan's Radio Weblog] Some interesting stuff which I must follow up on at some point. Some relevent links pulled out for my own reference purposes: JCK: Java Constraint Kit Documentation CONSTRAINT HANDLING RULES (CHR) 5:51:25 PM

HP may have to kill the Itanium sooner or later HP readying dual-core PA-8800. As Itanium 2 looms [The Register] Interesting. Boxes that can run either Itanium2, or the latest PA-8800. Anyone get the feeling that HP is hedging bets here? 5:36:08 PM

Feature Requests I "Pledge" Not To Talk About "Worldcom". Here's the thing, though. I need a second generation aggregator, like, yesterday. I need to be able to filter my aggregator the way I do my email, and today was a perfect example of that. I need to be able to send every post with the word "Worldcom" or "pledge" into a trash folder. Oy vey already. [The Shifted Librarian] Some more feature requests for the aggregator that I am going to build one day. (In my copious spare time ... ;) 5:25:49 PM

Microsoft bug fixers Government to Force Microsoft to Clean Up Security Holes?. Reuters is reporting in this article that new proposed legislation would put software developers at the same liability risks of other types of manufacturers. The legislation, which has yet to be written and brought forth for voting, would make software companies liable for security holes within their software. The first company on the list, should this legislation be created and approved? Microsoft. [kuro5hin.org] I can see the US government forcing microsoft to clean up its bugs around about the same time that hell freezes over... 5:24:12 PM

Some content management links. Blogs as Disruptive Tech - How weblogs are flying under the radar of the Content Management Giants PAID: the economics... [paradox1x] Very interesting reading. Blogware as the PC upstart to CMS systems Mainframes. Could be fun to think about the above metaphor given the Digital eaten by Compaq eaten by HP timeframe... 5:23:08 PM

Accounting? Bah JANE GALT EXPLAINS WORLDCOM. I like the way she frames the initial question. [InstaPundit] Bringing Worldcom back to the world that the rest of us live in. I am not even going to admit I was almost a qualified accountant at one point. Heh. 5:08:41 PM

Some useful Java Libs Some useful Java Libs For building a web spider: Apache Commons HTTP Client W3C JTidy HTML Parser For doing graphs: Batik SVG Library POI - for generating excel spreadsheets 4:23:00 PM

BigCo's want to 0wn my desktop EROS. BTW, if you want the touted benefits of Palladium without the scary parts, EROS should be available around the same time as Palladium. [Hack the Planet] I have always liked Eros. Pity the BigCo's will hate the fact that the user has more control of his computer than the BigCo's do. 1:38:12 PM

SSL for web apps. WS-Security. It looks like Sun is on-board with WS-Security now, which just went to Oasis.  IBM has an implementation.  Simon Fell comments on why WS-Security is better (but slower) than SSL.  Security is great FUD material for the "rough" competitors, so it is great to see that Sun is willing to pass up the opportunity to frustrate Microsoft, and is acknowledging the merits of the specification.  Now we just need to get implementations out there, until people expect WS-Security to "just be there" the same was they do SSL. [Better Living Through Software] Hmmm. SSL for web apps. I will need this at some point. 1:33:08 PM

Wayback Cinema If none of us go for the blonde.... I saw A Beautiful Mind last night. One of these days I'll have to look at game theory again. [The Peanut Gallery] I am upset I never got around to seeing this at the movies. Which brings me to a brilliant idea of mine. Wayback Cinema. A Cinema that shows only films that have been out for more than a year. Put the playlist up on the web so that people can vote which moofies that they want to see, when they are available, and how much they are willing to pay up. If done right, this could be used to bring some of the closed independants back to life, eg the Valhalla in Glebe. Or, maybe if enough people desperately want to see Revenge of The Insane Tomato part 13, we could rent a cinema in a Commercial Cinema (gasp). Thoughts? 1:17:59 PM

Troll indeed C: A Dead Language?. (2002-06-28 00:56) [Swhack Weblog] Heh, someone reckons they have been coding java for ten years. That would put the initial release of java back to '92. I don't think so Jack. 1:14:01 PM

Bitter Java Bitter Java - Ugo! You can get it free in PDF form from The ServerSide from today. (some people like paper - so do I - but sometimes a PDF is just as useful) [Be Blogging] [rebelutionary] Must add that to my Amazon wish list. Or, have I already done so? Questions questions... 1:12:25 PM

Open Source Ping testing. SmokePing. Tobias Oetiker's SmokePing can measure latency, latency distribution and packet loss in your network. [Hack the Planet] Looks cute, and it may very well do most of what I need for a client's stats portal. Cute as. I love open source. [Later...] and it can be used to check the uptimeliness of web servers using echoping. Of course. :) 1:06:04 PM

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